603835 VU Body Relations and Sex. Selected Examples: Power, Violence, Resistance

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603835
VU Body Relations and Sex. Selected Examples: Power, Violence, Resistance
VU 2
5
weekly
annually
German

The students are able to explain the historical and social embedding of the modern body-self relationship. They can show how gender and other social positions are literally embodied and incorporated. They are able to classify widespread theorizations about the relevance of the body in subjectification processes. The students can apply these competencies to selected examples.

In the seminar, the apparently self-evident sentence “I have a body” is going be historicized (see Sarasin 2001). With a focus on gender, we will work out how the modern western understanding of body management and body-related practices (health and fitness, self-tracking, self-optimization, body as representation of the self) have developed and how relevant categories of inequality are within this development. Various well-known theorizations of the relevance of the body and its conduct for subjectification processes are discussed (Foucault, Bourdieu, Butler) and an explicit (gender)theoretical view of body-self relationships is conveyed. On this basis, the seminar will work out what role the body-self relationship plays in political emancipation movements such as the feminist movement, the disability rights movement and the equal rights movement of Black and People of Color. The ambivalences of body politics and its implicit values ​​of self-determination and autonomy are also critically discussed.

reading, lecture, film contributions, discussion

presentations, essays

Alkemeyer, Thomas (2007): Aufrecht und biegsam. Eine politische Geschichte des Körperkults. In: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte (18), S. 6-18.

Bourdieu, Pierre (1997): Die männliche Herrschaft. In: Irene Dölling und Beate Krais (Hg.): Ein alltägliches Spiel. Geschlechterkonstruktion in der sozialen Praxis. Erstausg. 1. Aufl. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, S. 153-217

Butler, Judith (2003): Noch einmal: Körper und Macht. In: Axel Honneth (Hg.): Michel Foucault. Zwischenbilanz einer Rezeption; Frankfurter Foucault-Konferenz 2001. Orig.-Ausg., 1. Aufl. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, S. 52-67.

Foucault, Michel (1976): Macht und Körper. In: Michel Foucault (Hg.): Mikrophysik der Macht. Michel Foucault Über Strafjustiz, Psychiatrie und Medizin. Berlin: Merve, S. 105-113.

Sarasin, Philipp (2001): Reizbare Maschinen. Eine Geschichte des Körpers 1765 - 1914. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.

 

Villa, Paula-Irene (2008): Habe den Mut, dich deines Körpers zu bedienen! Thesen zur Körperarbeit in der Gegenwart zwischen Selbstermächtigung und Selbstunterwerfung. In: Paula-Irene Villa (Hg.): schön normal. Manipulationen am Körper als Technologien des Selbst. Bielefeld: Transcript, S. 245-269.

 

Young, Iris Marion (1993): Werfen wie ein Mädchen. Eine Phänomenologie weiblichen Körperverhaltens, weiblicher Motilität und Räumlichkeit. In: Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 41 (4), S. 707-725.

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Tue 2024-10-08
13.45 - 15.15 Kleiner Hörsaal Kleiner Hörsaal Barrier-free Induction loops for hearing impaired
Tue 2024-10-15
13.45 - 15.15 Kleiner Hörsaal Kleiner Hörsaal Barrier-free Induction loops for hearing impaired
Tue 2024-10-22
13.45 - 15.15 Kleiner Hörsaal Kleiner Hörsaal Barrier-free Induction loops for hearing impaired
Tue 2024-10-29
13.45 - 15.15 Kleiner Hörsaal Kleiner Hörsaal Barrier-free Induction loops for hearing impaired
Tue 2024-11-05
13.45 - 15.15 Kleiner Hörsaal Kleiner Hörsaal Barrier-free Induction loops for hearing impaired
Tue 2024-11-12
13.45 - 15.15 Seminarraum 14 (Innrain 52a) 01M090 Seminarraum 14 (Innrain 52a) 01M090 Barrier-free Induction loops for hearing impaired
Tue 2024-11-19
13.45 - 15.15 Seminarraum 14 (Innrain 52a) 01M090 Seminarraum 14 (Innrain 52a) 01M090 Barrier-free Induction loops for hearing impaired
Tue 2024-11-26
13.45 - 15.15 Seminarraum 14 (Innrain 52a) 01M090 Seminarraum 14 (Innrain 52a) 01M090 Barrier-free Induction loops for hearing impaired
Tue 2024-12-03
13.45 - 15.15 Seminarraum 14 (Innrain 52a) 01M090 Seminarraum 14 (Innrain 52a) 01M090 Barrier-free Induction loops for hearing impaired
Tue 2024-12-10
13.45 - 15.15 Seminarraum 14 (Innrain 52a) 01M090 Seminarraum 14 (Innrain 52a) 01M090 Barrier-free Induction loops for hearing impaired
Tue 2025-01-07
13.45 - 15.15 Seminarraum 14 (Innrain 52a) 01M090 Seminarraum 14 (Innrain 52a) 01M090 Barrier-free Induction loops for hearing impaired
Tue 2025-01-14
13.45 - 15.15 Seminarraum 14 (Innrain 52a) 01M090 Seminarraum 14 (Innrain 52a) 01M090 Barrier-free Induction loops for hearing impaired
Tue 2025-01-21
13.45 - 15.15 Seminarraum 14 (Innrain 52a) 01M090 Seminarraum 14 (Innrain 52a) 01M090 Barrier-free Induction loops for hearing impaired
Tue 2025-01-28
13.45 - 15.15 Seminarraum 14 (Innrain 52a) 01M090 Seminarraum 14 (Innrain 52a) 01M090 Barrier-free Induction loops for hearing impaired